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THE TRUTH THAT TEXAS TAXPAYERS DESERVE TO KNOW!

March 2021 - El Paso Region Charter Enrollment Update

The Houston, San Antonio, and Rio Grande Valley Regions have witnesses the largest charter enrollment increase in the last 3 years. However, the El Paso Region has experienced the largest percentage increase of 91% during this time.
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Academic Ratings of El Paso Region ISDs

  • In the El Paso Region, every ISD has an above average State Academic Rating
  • Texas annually diverts $101,051,106 - of taxpayer dollars to fund 10 charter operators in the El Paso Region, to recruit students from schools that have received A and B ratings.
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El Paso Region | MARCH 2021
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A SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
~ after 25 years ~

December 2020

Academic Ratings

  • 14.6% of charters are rated D/F

Recruitment

  • 89.1% of charter enrollment are students from A/B ISDs

Impact

  • 26% of African American students attend D/F charters
  • Fort Worth - 31% of students attend D/F charters
  • San Antonio - 34% of students attend D/F charters

College Enrollment

  • ISD send 2X more students to college than charters.
  • ISDs enroll 94% of students and account for 97% of college enrollees
  • Charters enroll 6% of students, but account for only 3% of college enrollees

College Success

  • 39% of College Preparatory Charter graduates earn GPAs below 2.0

The Classroom

  • Charters devote $579 more per student, to Admin/Mang, than ISDs
  • ISDs devote $608 more per student to Instruction, than charters
  • ISDs employ more experienced teachers, w advanced degrees and have smaller class sizes than charters
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AFTER 25 YEARS

4 New IDEA Charters in El Paso & Odessa areas

8 Oct 2020 | Last week, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath approved four new IDEA charter franchises that will be located in the El Paso and Odessa areas. The commissioner approved these new franchises through the charter amendment process.

As a reminder, the State Board of Education has final authority over the approval of new open-enrollment charter applicants. These applicants must submit their plans to the board and describe how they propose to use state funding provided by taxpayers to serve students in a specified geographical area. However, once an initial charter is approved, the charter operator can seek to amend its charter to open an unlimited number of new franchises anywhere in Texas. Approval of these charter amendments is at the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Education. Limited public notice is required, and there is no opportunity for public input.
4 New IDEA Charters

Additional Cost of Charters (Region XIX) 22 Sep 2020

Summary, in 2019-20:
  • Charters in El Paso cost the state and Texas taxpayers $7.8 million more than if the same students would have attended their home school districts.
  • El Paso ISDs with the largest number of transfers to charters lost an estimated $59.8 million in revenue to charters.
22 Sep 2020 Update

Charter Amendment Approvals

Once an open enrollment charter is awarded by TEA through the application process, and the charter meets certain TEA requirements, it can open an unlimited number of new charter campuses anywhere in Texas through the charter amendment process. Approval of charter amendments is at the sole discretion of the Commissioner of Education; there is extremely limited public notice and no opportunity for public input.

A total of 736 new charter campuses were approved by the Commissioner across Texas between 2010 and 2019 through the charter amendment process.
Charter Amendment Approvals (31 OCT 2020)
Charter Amendment Approvals (30 Sep 2020)

Duplicative Tax-Payer Burden

The Legislative Budget Board confirmed the additional cost of charters to the state in a 2018 memo which estimated that Texas would have saved $882 million over the 2018-2019 biennium (over two years) if charters had been paid the same as the districts where the charters have the highest enrollment.
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LBB Memo

A STATEWIDE OVERVIEW

September 2020
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TRUTH IN CHARTERS - BY REGION

EL PASO, TEXAS

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Source: Texas Education Agency
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ODESSA, TEXAS - Ector County ISD

DOWNLOAD THE ODESSA (ECISD) REPORT
Source: Texas Education Agency
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Harlandale, South San, & Southside ISDs

DOWNLOAD THE SA ISDs REPORT
Source: Texas Education Agency
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SAN ANTONIO AREA

DOWNLOAD THE SAN ANTONIO AREA REPORT
Source: Texas Education Agency
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DALLAS, TEXAS

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NORTH TEXAS

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